| Title: | The faerie queen ; The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët, Edm. Spenser / collected into one volume and carefully corrected |
| Repository: | William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster U Library |
| Shelfmark: | D 1040 |
| Published by: | H[umphrey]. L[ownes] |
| Published for: | Mathew Lownes |
| Published Location: | London |
| Published date: | 1611 |
| Copynotes: | In correspondence of summer 2009, librarians identify this copy as ESTC S121946.
Imperfect: wanting t.p., p. 1-8, 35-46, 55-58, 123-126, 179-182, 223-224, 235-246, 307-308, 317-318, The shepheards calender, Prosopopoia, and the last four poems of Complaints; some pages damaged with loss of text. Imperfect: wanting Petrarches visions (last poem of Complaints).
the title page for FQ part 2 has the date 1613.
Correspondence of 6/11/10:
D1040:
Title page: no date on title page
1st part, page B3r: Yo~ug knight
2nd part, title page: 1613
2nd part, end colophon: "16012"
Shepeardes Calendar: no calendar
Poems after Colin Clout: (all 1611) Prothalamion, Amoretti &
Epithalamion, Foure Hymes, Daphnaida, Complaints
Letter to Raleigh: Alle-
Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberd's Tale: not here |
| Editionnotes: | Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, Anno Dom. 1611 [i.e. 1612 or 1613]
A second reissue of the 1609 edition. Part 1 still has the 1611 cancel title page and conjugate dedication of the first reissue (STC 23083.3); B3r stanza 1 begins "Yoūg knight".
Q5-6 of part 1, bearing respectively the 1609 title page and first leaf of text of part 2, are canceled. Part 2 has been reprinted, with a title page dated either 1612 or 1613
(stop-press variant). The R3r catchword now reads "And". Pagination and register are continuous. In some copies (such as the one on the microfilm) the 1612/1613 title page
has been canceled instead of the 1609 one. The last leaf is blank. |
| Record Author: | NS 6/19/2009; NS 6/11/10 |
| Record Source: | catalog |
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